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Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
POSTED BY JACKIE SOUTHEE ON MAY 23, 2013
Victims want new bishop to “come clean”
He was allegedly told about a predator in 2002
SNAP asks prelate: “What did you do then, what are you doing now?”
They urge El Paso’s prelate to explain his role in a clergy sex abuse case
And victims also seek names of all child molesting clerics on church website
A support group for clergy sex abuse victims is urging El Paso’s new Catholic bishop to explain his involvement in a predator priest case and to post on the diocesan website the names of “proven, admitted and credibly accused predator priests.”
Leaders of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests are writing Bishop Mark Seitz about a Kentucky predator priest, Fr. James Hargadon who was convicted of molesting boys.
In 2002, Hargadon was sued by John Kaelin of Waxahachie, Texas, who says the cleric molested him as a child in 1974 at a cabin in Rough River.
Kaelin also said that he reported the abuse to Seitz in 1990 when Seitz was a parish priest.
“If you are to earn the trust of your new flock, you must show – by deeds, not words – that you are capable of breaking from the long-standing hurtful patterns of secrecy that most of your colleagues are still trapped in today,” SNAP says in its letter.
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